Book
Fierce pajamas : an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker
Publication Information
New York : Random House, c2001.
Physical Description
xxi, 497 p. ; 25 cm.
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Contents
- Death in the rumble seat / Wolcott Gibbs
- Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White
- Across the street and into the grill / E.B. White
- On the sidewalk / John Updike
- Save my seat / Mike Nichols
- Hassidic tales, with a guide to their interpretation / Woody Allen
- Ultimate diary / Howard Moss
- Analytic napkin / Marshall Brickman
- Who's who in the cast / Marshall Brickman
- Health department lists restaurant violations / Daniel Menaker
- Delts of Venus / Charles McGrat
- Notes from the edge conference / Roy Blount, Jr.
- LGA-ORD / Ian Frazier
- Love trouble is my business / Veronica Geng
- In the new Canada, living is a way of life / Bruce McCall
- Corrections / Calvin Trillin
- Stardate 12:00 12:00 12:00 / Christopher Buckley
- Glengarry Glen Plaid / Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely
- Gum / Scott Gutterman
- What we talk about when we talk about doughnuts / Michael Gerber and Jonathan Schwartz --
- (Cont'd) Teen times / Paul Rudnick
- Press agents I have known / Groucho Marx
- Greatest man in the world / James Thurber
- Interview / James Thurber
- Let's hear it for a beautiful guy / Bruce Jay Friedman
- King of Jazz / Donald Barthelme
- My Mao / Veronica Geng
- Do you know me? / George W.S. Trow
- Gandhi at the bat / Chet Williamson
- Igor Stravinsky: the selected phone calls / Ian Frazier
- We are still married / Garrison Keillor
- Meeting famous people / Garrison Keillor
- Yo, Poe / Frank Gannon
- My life: a sewries of privately funded performance-art pieces / Susan Orlean
- A-list E-list / David Brooks
- Mr. Preble gets rid of his wife / James Thurber
- Couple of hamburgers / James Thurber
- Forever panting / Peter De Vries
- Kugelmass episode / Woody Allen
- Partners / Veronica Geng
- My married life: the whole truth thus far / Mark Singer
- Life without Leann / Larry Doyle --
- (Cont'd) Zeus the Lutheran / Garrison Keillor
- Very comical lament of Pyramus and Thisbe / Susan Sontag
- Off-ramp / Polly Frost
- Blown away / Lisa Walker
- Here's a really great idea / David Owen
- Short autobiography / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Cliché expert takes the stand / Frank Sullivan
- Cliché expert tells all / Frank Sullivan
- How to achieve success as a writer / Ruth Suckow
- Rather difficult case of Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross
- Notebooks of James Thurber / James Thurber
- Are we losing the novel race? / Michael J. Arlen
- Roland Mgruder, freelance writer / Calvin Triller
- Contemporary writers VI: and interview with Grip Sands / Philip Hamburger
- In the dough / Roger Angell
- Selections from the Allen notebooks / Woody Allen
- I cover Carter / George W.S. Trow
- Notes on my conversations / Polly Frost
- Writing is easy! / Steve Martin
- Drivel / Steve Martin --
- (Cont'd) Emily Dickinson, jerk of Amherst / Andy Borowitz
- Catastophe / William Shawn
- Secret life of Walter Mutty / James Thurber
- I am not now, nor have I ever been, a matrix of lean meat / S.J. Perelman
- Eine Kleine Mothmusik / S.J. Perelman
- Monomania, you and me is quits / S. J. Perelman
- Pnin / Vladimir Nabokov
- Annoy Kaufman, Inc. / George S. Kaufman
- Last repository / H.F. Ellis
- Yma dream / Thomas Meehan
- Ainmosni / Roger Angell
- High ground, or Look, Ma, I'm explicating / Petere De Vries
- Apartment 6-A: after the fall / Ian Frazier
- Spill / George W.S. Trow
- Hearing from Wayne / Bill Franzen
- Stinned / Hack Handey
- He didn't go to Canada / Garrison Keillor
- Post-euphoria / Veronica Geng
- Keith Richards' desert-island disks / Noah Baumbach
- Ho to be obscene / Upton Sinclair
- Filling that Hiatus / Robert Benchley
- It's fun to be fooled...it's more fun to know / Robert Benchley --
- (Cont'd) Why we laugh--or do we? / Robert Benchley
- Insert flap "A" and throw away / S.J. Perelman
- How to eat an ice-cream cone / L. Rust Hills
- Teaching poetry to young singles / Veronica Geng
- Dating your mom / Ian Frazier
- Reading list for young writers / Ian Frazier
- How I write my songs / Donald Barthelme
- Save our bus herds! / Cathleen Schine
- Three great meals / William White
- Read this first / Bruce McCall
- Take it from me / Nancy Franklin
- Changes in the memory after fifty / Steve Martin
- Hundred greatest books that I've read / Steve Martin
- Reintroducing me to my habitat / Jack Handey
- Thank you for stopping / Jack Handey
- Homework: a parent's guide / Christopher Buckley
- What happened to my money? / David Owen
- On taxi drivers / Alexander Woollcott
- Father isn't much help / Clarence Day
- Night the ghost got in / James Thurber
- Ring out, wild bells / Wolcott Gibbs --
- (Cont'd) Ballet visits the splendide's magician / Ludwig Bemelmans
- Cloudland revisited: why, Doctor, what big green eyes you have! / S.J. Perelman
- Thoughts on radio-televese / John Lardner
- Musical husbands / Adam Gopnik
- Listening to bourbon / Louis Menand
- Look back in hunger / Anthony Lane
- Tennis personalities / Martin Amis
- Car talk / John Updike
- Critic / E.B. White
- Song to be disregarded / E.B. White
- To a perfumed lady at the concert / E.B. White
- Song of the queen bee / E.B. White
- Rhyme of an involuntary violet / Dorothy Parker
- Fulfilment / Dorothy Parker
- Bohemia / Dorothy Parker
- Mother's home again! / Don Marquis
- Melancholy reflections after a lost argument / Phyllis McGinley
- Seven ages of a newspaper subscriber / Phyllis McGinley
- Incident in the afternoon / Phyllis McGinley
- Procrastination is all of the time / Ogden Nash
- To my valentine / Ogden Nash --
- (Cont'd) So that' who I remind me of / Ogden Nash
- Compliments of a friend / Ogden Nash
- Invitation says from five to seven / Ogden Nash
- Theme and variation / Peter De Vries
- People / W.H. Auden
- Six poets in search of a lawyer / Donald Hall
- Naked and the nude / Robert Graves
- 12 O'Clock news / Elizabeth Bishop
- Christmas in Qatar / Calvin Trillin
- Duet, with muffled brake drums / John Updike
- Ocular hypertension / John Updike.